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Opportunities for Nottingham City Schools

On this page you'll find, information about workshops, activities, competitions and giveaways for schools from Nottingham's cultural, arts and heritage organisations, grouped in the following sections:

  • For a limited time
  • Drama, Literature and Poetry
  • Heritage and History
  • Art
  • Music
  • Mental and Physical Wellbeing


If you'd like to find out more about Nottingham's Cultural Rucksack, please visit the separate page on our website.

Schools Newsletters

Find out about events & workshops for schools and also CPD for teachers from Nottingham’s arts, cultural and heritage organisations. 


Read the latest Primary Schools Newsletter and Secondary Schools Newsletter.


Sign up to receive the bi-monthly Primary or Secondary Schools Newsletter below. 

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For a Limited Time

Primary Parliament

West African Drumming and Dance Workshops

West African Drumming and Dance Workshops

Ignite

Nottingham Council House

26, 27 and 28 March 2024 

Free


Register to take part in the Spring term's Primary Parliament now. Representatives from school councils across the city come to the Council House to explore a wide range of global and local issues that matter to them and to their futures. There is also a half-day online available as an option for SEND schools. For the Spring term, our theme will be 'Safe, Positive and Smart Communities'.  


Register here



West African Drumming and Dance Workshops

West African Drumming and Dance Workshops

West African Drumming and Dance Workshops

Beatfeet

Your School or Setting

Year Round

All Ages

Free


Liven up your classes with bespoke and specialist drumming sessions! Specialising in West African and Brazilian music and dance,  BeatFeet are the UK’s No.1 provider of drumming, dance & wellbeing workshops.

Bring the heart of global musical cultures to your classroom.


Get in touch



Take 10 To Read

West African Drumming and Dance Workshops

Freedom Foundation Assemblies

Freedom Foundation

Your School or Setting

Year Round

Primary Ages

Free


Freedom Foundation have put together some taster sessions and assemblies showcasing what they deliver within their programmes.
Their talks revolve around music, positive mindsets and mental health using creativity and the arts.
There is no charge for a session and Freedom Foundation is interested in working with schools delivering termly or year-round sessions.
 

Get in touch

Freedom Foundation Assemblies

A Temple to Water Immersive Theatre Programme

Freedom Foundation Assemblies

Freedom Foundation

Your School or Setting

Year Round

Free


Freedom Foundation have put together some taster sessions and assemblies showcasing what they deliver within their programmes.
Their talks revolve around music, positive mindsets and mental health using creativity and the arts.
There is no charge for a session and Freedom Foundation is interested in working with schools delivering termly or year-round sessions.
 

Get in touch

A Temple to Water Immersive Theatre Programme

A Temple to Water Immersive Theatre Programme

A Temple to Water Immersive Theatre Programme

Dragon Breath Theatre

Papplewick Pumping Station Museum
May - July '24
Papplewick Pumping Station Victorian Museum
£300 for 60 children

 

An award-winning, day-long, immersive drama experience, exploring local history, engineering, science, geography, and contemporary environmental/global water management issues.
 

The visit to this awe-inspiring Victorian site is part of an offer including extensive online cross-curriculum resources.
It can be a one-off event, or support a half-term's thematic curriculum around water, science, geography, history and literacy.
 

Children’s understanding of history is fostered and embedded through empathising with live characters’ stories, and by getting their hands on practical, kinaesthetic activities. 


Get in touch

Visit New Art Exchange

A Temple to Water Immersive Theatre Programme

A Temple to Water Immersive Theatre Programme

New Art Exchange

All ages

Free


New Art Exchange are launching a new season of work which opens on 6 October. With exhibitions, events, and plenty of programmes for young people to take part in, there’s something for all age groups. Schools can book free gallery tours tailored to the specific age group of your pupils. For more information, or to book a tour please contact.  


Get in touch

The Heart Project

Resource: Titus - T. rex is King

The Urban Nature Project

Nottingham University, Nottingham Libraries, City Arts
Years 5 & 6
Clifton Library
Free

  

The University of Nottingham BioDiscovery Unit (BDI) has collaborated with City Arts, to offer a unique opportunity to dive into the fascinating world of the human heart through art.

All budding young artists and aspiring scientists are invited to take part in The Heart project at Clifton Library.

A hands-on art workshop led by Textile artist Anna Wikramasinha, children will create their very own piece of art inspired by cells of the heart.

Children will have the opportunity to meet a BDI researcher up close and personal where they can engage in discussions, ask questions, and gain insight into the cutting-edge discoveries taking place in the world of medical research.   


Get in touch

The Urban Nature Project

Resource: Titus - T. rex is King

The Urban Nature Project

Ages: KS3. Wollaton Hall and Newstead Abbey. Long term project until 2024. Free. 


An exciting opportunity for your school to be involved in the Natural History Museum London’s Urban Nature Project. Museums across the country are connecting teachers and new audiences of young people aged 9-14 to their local nature, and to global issues. In particular to connect with those identified as having a low connection to nature.T here is training for teachers, curriculum-linked learning resources, hands-on outdoor workshops for pupils aged 9-14 and a new community science project informed by student ideas and questions. 


Find out more.

Resource: Titus - T. rex is King

Resource: Titus - T. rex is King

Resource: Titus - T. rex is King

Titus the Tyrannosaurus Rex remains at Wollaton Hall. The skeleton of Titus discovered in the Badlands of Montana in the USA in 2018 is still on display with an exhibition that explores his life and environment. You can book school sessions that run alongside the T. Rex exhibition, looking at fossils, evolution and bones. There is still one workshop linked to the exhibition available to book:


  • Mary Anning And Her Fossils KS1 and KS2


Details can be found on the website.  To book, please contact the Learning and Education Team by email or by phone 0115 876 1420. 

Drama, Literature and Poetry

Teacher Led Adventures

Resource: Exploring Nature, Locality and Change Making through the work of D.H. Lawrence

Teacher Led Adventures

Ages:  KS1 & KS2

Punchdrunk Enrichment, Nonsuch Studios

£400+VAT (Bursaries available)  


Find out how you and your school can be part of Punchdrunk Enrichment's Teacher-Led Adventures in the East Midlands this Autumn.  


Nonsuch Studios is partnering with the award-winning Punchdrunk Enrichment to bring their Teacher-Led adventures to schools and educational settings in Nottingham and the East Midlands for the first time.   

Find out more

Resource: Artployment

Resource: Exploring Nature, Locality and Change Making through the work of D.H. Lawrence

Teacher Led Adventures

Ages: 14+

City Arts

Hard copies available via City Arts.

PDF available online


City Arts have assembled a toolkit promoting entrepreneurship to young people looking to enter the arts. 

Read through these accessible, clear and flexible activities that cover subjects including: Branding, Finances, Return on Investment & Networking.   

Find out more

Resource: Exploring Nature, Locality and Change Making through the work of D.H. Lawrence

Resource: Exploring Nature, Locality and Change Making through the work of D.H. Lawrence

Resource: Exploring Nature, Locality and Change Making through the work of D.H. Lawrence

Ages: KS2

Nottingham City Museum and Galleries

Digital Resource


The resource booklet includes three themes to explore with your class: The colour of Nature,  Mapping your locality and Being a change maker.  Each theme includes 

• An introduction to the theme and how it relates to D.H. Lawrence 

• Lesson plans using writing and visual arts to explore these themes using poems and extracts of writings by D.H. Lawrence 

• Video guides which lead you through each writing activity 

• A resources list and step by step guide to the lessons 

• Curriculum links, plus supporting resources if you would like to develop these into a wider scheme of work.  

These activities can be used as stand alone sessions or as part of a longer scheme of work. Each are aimed at KS2 classes but can be adjusted for younger or older age groups. To download and view other supporting materials click the link below.

Find out more

Black Tudors: Elizabeth's Story

Black Tudors: Elizabeth's Story

Resource: Exploring Nature, Locality and Change Making through the work of D.H. Lawrence

Ages: KS2

Various Dates

10.00-11.30 pm or 1pm–2.30pm 

Wollaton Hall

£6 per child

Delve into the history of Elizabeth, seamstress for Lady Willoughby at Wollaton Hall. On this visit you can learn all about her family's travels from Africa to Spain, then her journey to London and Nottingham.  Discover her skills and knowledge as a seamstress and the Tudor fashions.  You will look at replica Tudor textiles and clothing and find out more about what Tudors would have worn from royalty to servants.
 

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Better Books

Black Tudors: Elizabeth's Story

Lakeside: Storytelling Sessions

Nottingham Citizens and partners have been working together on a campaign for Better Books. The aim is to provide all Primary schools in the city with a set of culturally diverse reading books, so that all children’s identities are represented and celebrate. Each school has been provided with a set of new books and Nottingham Contemporary produced resources to encourage children and teachers to explore and use the books.

Find Out More

Lakeside: Storytelling Sessions

Black Tudors: Elizabeth's Story

Lakeside: Storytelling Sessions

EYFS, KS1, KS2. Bring literacy to life with Lakeside Art’s storytelling sessions. Children are encouraged to join in the story using their imagination, props, and costumes. Using traditional oral storytelling skills pupils can explore themes, characters of traditional tales and myths. 

Contact Lakeside

Resource: Bitesize Poetry for Schools

Resource: Bitesize Poetry for Schools

Resource: Bitesize Poetry for Schools

The Nottingham Poetry Festival  have four Bitesize 10-minute digital workshops for schools, created by local Nottinghamshire poets. The aim is to encourage children and young people to enjoy and create poetry. 

Find out more

First Story: Year-Long Programmes

Resource: Bitesize Poetry for Schools

Resource: Bitesize Poetry for Schools

Primary and Secondary. First Story’s extra-curricular Young Writers’ Programme includes writing workshops which equip students with the skills and confidence to tell their own stories, with whole-school activities which encourage writing for pleasure. It also includes CPD for educators and access to a range of resources, events and competitions. First Story’s work expands young

people’s horizons and encourages aspirations, giving participants the skills to thrive in education - and in life. Download the PDF. Staff can also access dedicated creative writing CPD. 

Visit the First Story website

Sport and Literacy Skills Academy

Resource: Bitesize Poetry for Schools

Sport and Literacy Skills Academy

Year 7 and 8. Secondary schools are still able to access this fun and effective catch up reading programme. Help students improve their reading, get them engaged and motivated and find their reason to read today. Skills Academy costs £150. You can register an unlimited number of students on the programme throughout your 12-month subscription. When you sign up to the programme your school also receives a year's membership of the National Literacy Trust worth £100, which gives you access to all of their resources. 

Find out more

Playhouse: Book A Backstage Tour

Nottingham City Libraries for schools

Sport and Literacy Skills Academy

Give your students the opportunity to see what it’s like behind the scenes of Nottingham Playhouse, to understand the various roles in theatre and see the teams at work. Led by a member of the Participation Team, students will hear from professionals about what they do day-to-day and how their role contributes towards the productions.  

Find out more

Playhouse: Schools Massive

Nottingham City Libraries for schools

Nottingham City Libraries for schools

Schools Massive is a unique large-scale performance opportunity for Nottingham Schools to bring a class of up to 30 children to perform a Shakespeare scene on the main stage at Nottingham Playhouse. Each participating school will receive half a day of   teacher CPD at the Playhouse, led by expert practitioners, on helping young people understand and enjoy with Shakespeare. 

Find out more

Nottingham City Libraries for schools

Nottingham City Libraries for schools

Nottingham City Libraries for schools

Nottingham City Libraries have a wealth of resources for schools. Their website is packed with things to do for school classes: free ebooks and audio books, links to great free story/author sites, plus artist led sessions, theatre productions including related online resources and more. You can book library visits to your nearest library. Children and staff are able to borrow reading books and non-fiction titles to take back to school and share stories, encouraging learning and reading for pleasure.   

Find out more

Heritage and History

Wollaton Hall: Stone Age sessions in the Walled Garden

Wollaton Hall: Stone Age sessions in the Walled Garden

Wollaton Hall: Stone Age sessions in the Walled Garden

KS1-KS2. Sessions at 10.30-12.00 or 1.00-2.30. £5 per child
Using original artefacts see how stone age people hunted and fed themselves, made shelters and used their surroundings to sustain them. Have a go at your own piece of cave art and try out a bow saw. 

Email to find out more

National Justice Museum: Blended workshops

Wollaton Hall: Stone Age sessions in the Walled Garden

Wollaton Hall: Stone Age sessions in the Walled Garden

KS2-KS5. The National Justice Museum is offering blended learning workshops to schools unable to visit their site. Working with you, their expert facilitators will  deliver live, interactive learning into your classroom. Workshops are held via Zoom and Teams, and can even be delivered to students at home if your school has temporarily closed. 

Find out more

National Justice Museum: Choices and Consequences

Wollaton Hall: Stone Age sessions in the Walled Garden

City Museums and Galleries: Access Artefacts for Schools

Years 7-9. Developed in partnership with the National Justice Museum and Ben Kinsella Trust, this workshop has been proven to make a difference in changing attitudes to knife crime among the young. To find out more please contact NJM.     

Contact NJM

City Museums and Galleries: Access Artefacts for Schools

City Museums and Galleries: Access Artefacts for Schools

City Museums and Galleries: Access Artefacts for Schools

Primary. The education loans service at Nottingham City Museums and Galleries, ‘Access Artefacts’, has a collection of over 11,000 museum objects, all suitable for handling and available to use in the classroom. The collection covers a wide range of themes including social history, archaeology, geology, industrial history, the natural sciences and many others.  

Find out more

Discovery Days with Creswell Crags at Lakeside Arts

City Museums and Galleries: Access Artefacts for Schools

Discovery Days with Creswell Crags at Lakeside Arts

Creswell Crags & University of Nottingham

Ages KS2   

Mondays to Wednesdays - term time   


Engaging and practical KS2 discovery days delivered by the Creswell Crags Learning Team at the University of Nottingham Museum, Lakeside Arts.

Designed to help your students’ understanding of the changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age, a visit to the University of Nottingham Museum is the perfect way to learn about pre-historic Britain. Your students will have an opportunity to learn what we know about prehistory and how we know about the changes that took place. 

Find out more

Art and Design

Lift Off: The Harley Art Framework

Make Nottingham Contemporary your Classroom

Make Nottingham Contemporary your Classroom

Ages 3 to 11. A resource designed to support teaching art in primary school. It provides developmental guidelines and art lesson ideas across the 3 to 11 age range. 


The approach is based on a simple idea: THAT ART IS A VISUAL LANGUAGE.

Find out more

Make Nottingham Contemporary your Classroom

Make Nottingham Contemporary your Classroom

Make Nottingham Contemporary your Classroom

Suitable for all ages and abilities.
Bring Nottingham Contemporary’s exhibitions into your classroom through Virtual Reality. Free resources explore activism and women’s role in protest, the foundations of art – colour, line, shape, pattern and light, as well as fashion and performance. Access VR versions of our exhibitions here. Please email for more information.   

Find out more

Artist Experience Workshops

Make Nottingham Contemporary your Classroom

Artist Experience Workshops

Nottingham Contemporary, Mondays, suitable for all ages and abilities
Visit Nottingham Contemporary on Mondays for an exclusive exploration of the new exhibitions combined with an Artist Experience workshop.  Find out more here or contact the Schools programmer for Secondary schools to book. 

Find out more

Music

MishMash Productions: The MishMash Ensemble

MishMash Productions: The MishMash Ensemble

MishMash Productions: The MishMash Ensemble

Mishmash Productions
Wednesday 12th & Thursday 13th July
In your school setting
£400 per performance

This summer MishMash Productions present a magical musical journey through an imaginative programme from across the ages. Witness 5 exceptional woodwind players bringing the young audience up close and personal to this wonderful music, musicians and instruments. Suitable for KS2 school audiences. 40 minutes in duration, to be performed in school (school hall required).

Find out more

Nottingham Music Hub: Area Band

MishMash Productions: The MishMash Ensemble

MishMash Productions: The MishMash Ensemble

Primary. 

Area Bands are beginner orchestral groups open to young people in city schools that have a Whole Class Ensemble or In Harmony programme in collaboration with Nottingham Music Hub. These bands are ideal for pupils (usually Year 5) who have completed one year of instrumental learning.  Rehearsals are currently online, and they would love to welcome new members.  

Find out more

Noise Academy: DJ Lessons

BeatFeet Drumming: Dance and Wellbeing Workshops

BeatFeet Drumming: Dance and Wellbeing Workshops

Noise Academy can deliver weekly DJ lessons at your school or setting delivered by professional tutors. Students will work towards recording their own DJ mixes whilst gaining AQA accreditations.

Find out more

BeatFeet Drumming: Dance and Wellbeing Workshops

BeatFeet Drumming: Dance and Wellbeing Workshops

BeatFeet Drumming: Dance and Wellbeing Workshops

Ages: KS3 - KS4. Available to book all year round. BeatFeet provide global drumming and dance workshops for schools. Specialising in West African percussion and dance, Brazilian Samba percussion and dance, an also Indian Bhangra dance. The Facilitators are also specialists within early years settings and special education schools. Workshops take place in your setting: half day £250, full day £500.

Find out more

Physical and Mental Wellbeing

Freedom Foundation: Drop Down Days

Helping Young People Become The Best Version of Themselves

A free guide: Wellbeing, Creativity and Young People

Ages: KS1-2 

In their work with schools Freedom Foundation have seen an increase in anxiety, issues with attendance, lack of resilience and aspiration, and the negative impact of social media on young people. Drop Down Days cover important PSHE outcomes including identifying emotions, how to recognise and deal with anxiety, positive and negative impact of online behaviour, how social media and technology use affects mental wellbeing and improving self-confidence. Please email or phone for more information 0115 993 2370.

Email to find out more

A free guide: Wellbeing, Creativity and Young People

Helping Young People Become The Best Version of Themselves

A free guide: Wellbeing, Creativity and Young People

A free guide for Education Professionals

Created for education professionals – supporting students in the midst and aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic – this free guide explores the relationship between learning and wellbeing. It considers the positive impact of creativity on children and young people’s ‘learning brains’ and how this can help to strengthen young people’s wellbeing and resilience. The guide also includes a series of practical and creative activities that educators can use in the classroom.

Download here

Helping Young People Become The Best Version of Themselves

Helping Young People Become The Best Version of Themselves

Helping Young People Become The Best Version of Themselves

The Pythian Club (TPC) offer a programme of activities for educational settings (mainstream and alternative provision) to support their young people to become the best versions of themselves. Activities on offer include, sport, music, train safety and nature (climate change and sustainability) workshops, mentoring support and outreach support. The activities are designed to support young people’s physical and mental wellbeing as well as teaching them life skills. 

Email to find out more

Freedom Foundation: Motivational Mornings

Freedom Foundation: Motivational Mornings

Helping Young People Become The Best Version of Themselves

Use these sessions as the perfect start to your students’ day to create a positive mindset, inspired and ready for the day of learning ahead. Motivational Mornings has had positive feedback from both students and teachers about the impact it’s had on confidence and motivation levels. The sessions are delivered through Freedom Foundations Lockdown Learning Hub - a safe space for students to access. 

Email to find out more

Creating Connections

Freedom Foundation: Motivational Mornings

Freedom Foundation: Freedom Factory

Ages 8+

The Creating Connections learning activities have been designed by NAE Associate Artists Shamila Chady and Elaine Winter for for use at home or school. Creating Connections is designed to help young people make positive connections with others their age where there is a feeling of disconnectedness due to cultural and other differences. 

Download the Activity Pack

Freedom Foundation: Freedom Factory

Freedom Foundation: Motivational Mornings

Freedom Foundation: Freedom Factory

Freedom Foundation deliver their 12 week Freedom Factory sessions in school time or as an after-school club. Using street dance and hip-hop, singing and song writing their 90 minute sessions with up to 30 children build confidence, resilience and aspiration, educate about the impact of social media on mental health and help children cope with common mental health problems such as anxiety, stress, depression and self-harm. 

Email to find out more

Dance4 and Next Door Dance: MoveMore

New Art Exchange: Exploring Diversity Through Art

New Art Exchange: Exploring Diversity Through Art

Primary.  A series of free, short 5 to 15 minute videos and creative tasks which can be done in the classroom or at home. The MoveMore team also offer further support called ‘Beyond MoveMore’ which offers face to face sessions, virtual dance sessions and also CPD training for teachers.

Email to find out more

New Art Exchange: Exploring Diversity Through Art

New Art Exchange: Exploring Diversity Through Art

New Art Exchange: Exploring Diversity Through Art

NAE’s Associate Artists have been devising dynamic art activity ideas for young people and these are now accessible for teachers, parents and young people to download from the NAE website. 

Find out more

Everything Else

Free travel for schools on NCT buses

Papplewick Pumping Station: A Temple to Water

Papplewick Pumping Station: A Temple to Water

Did you know that Nottingham City Schools can travel for free to events or activities using Nottingham City Transport?  Applications are made through the Aquinas Foundation.at least one week in advance by email to to the Aquinas Foundation   

james.freeman@aquinaseducation.co.uk
Tel: 0115 9244788 

Download the application form

Papplewick Pumping Station: A Temple to Water

Papplewick Pumping Station: A Temple to Water

Papplewick Pumping Station: A Temple to Water

KS2-KS3
An award winning, immersive, day-long teacher led/actor supported visit to Papplewick Pumping Station, meeting characters from the museum's industrial and social history. The visit is part of an education offer with extensive cross curricula resources investigating Papplewick’s local, social and engineering history, and its significance as a site for considering the management of global water resources today.  

Visit the website

Children's University

Papplewick Pumping Station: A Temple to Water

The Curiosity Project, Festival of Science and Curiosity

Ages 7-11
Do you work with children aged 7–14 to provide extracurricular learning opportunities? Sign up to Children’s University (CU) for free and join us as we recognise and celebrate extracurricular! Nottingham Trent CU is coordinated at Nottingham Trent University. Our goal is for participants to feel the joy of learning beyond the classroom whilst having an enriching experience building their cultural capital. Interested? 

Visit the website

The Curiosity Project, Festival of Science and Curiosity

The Curiosity Project, Festival of Science and Curiosity

The Curiosity Project, Festival of Science and Curiosity

Suitable for all Primary and Secondary Pupils
As part of FOSAC (Nottingham's annual Festival of Science and Curiosity in Feb each year) pupils develop their own science investigations about the questions that matter to them, and work with scientists who specialise in that field to help work out the answers.  flexible for different ages, time-frames and the topics can be tailored to support curriculum teaching and extra-curricular activity in your school.. Take a look at this year's highlights! 

Visit the website

The ChalleNGe Activities Pack

The Curiosity Project, Festival of Science and Curiosity

The ChalleNGe Activities Pack

We're pleased to bring you the second edition of our free creative activities pack designed for Nottingham’s children and young people. It’s filled with over 40 engaging and fun activities created by 20 of Nottingham’s arts organisations. 

Download the Pack

Votes for Schools

The Curiosity Project, Festival of Science and Curiosity

The ChalleNGe Activities Pack

Votes for Schools is an award-winning platform giving your students a voice on the issues that affect them the most, as well as supporting you to consistently embed SMSC, British Values and Prevent across your school. 

Visit the website

Wollaton Hall: Discover The Amazing Trees

Wollaton Hall: Discover The Amazing Trees

Wollaton Hall: Discover The Amazing Trees

Meet some of Wollaton’s magnificent trees, learn to identify them and take a closer look at their leaves, flowers, bark and seeds as well as the animal life that lives on and around them. Fun practical science activities including measuring trees, comparing leaf shapes and bark patterns and finding out what woodlice like. You’ll see species of trees whose ancestors lived at the same time as dinosaurs. 

Contact Wollaton Hall

Useful Information and Resources for Teachers

Researching the Arts in Primary School

Researching the Arts in Primary School

Researching the Arts in Primary School

Are the arts in trouble in English schools? Enrolments in secondary school arts subjects have fallen, and time devoted to the arts in primary schools is apparently greatly reduced. Creative teaching and learning also appears to be very patchy, with frequent media reports of schools using very ‘traditional’ methods in all subjects and for all topics. RAPS will shed light on how these issues appear in primary schools.

Find out more

Creativity Exchange

Researching the Arts in Primary School

Researching the Arts in Primary School

Creativity Exchange is an online community where school leaders, teachers and those working and interacting with schools can embed teaching for creativity and learn from each other.  Find an inspiring range of content in the Ideas Hub to support you to think about how to develop teaching for creativity across the curriculum - including practical ideas, blogs, case studies and book reviews. 

Find out more

Creative Schools Network

Researching the Arts in Primary School

Creative Schools Network

The Creative Schools Network was developed to support East Midlands schools to share ideas and expertise, profile excellent practice, and offer free training and workshops for those with responsibility for ensuring arts and culture thrive in educational settings. It's FREE to join.

Find out more

Black Artists Resource

NSEAD Courses, Conferences and CPD

Creative Schools Network

 A few of Nottingham’s galleries are working together to support an anti-racist and inclusive curriculum. They are keen to work with schools and partners in the community.  If you are a teacher in a Nottingham city school and are interested in working with them.

For more information, please email Ruth Lewis-Jones, at New Art Exchange, or Amanda Spruyt at Nottingham Contemporary,   

NSEAD Resources

NSEAD Courses, Conferences and CPD

NSEAD Courses, Conferences and CPD

Explore the extensive variety of resources available for art and design teachers.





NSEAD Resources

NSEAD Courses, Conferences and CPD

NSEAD Courses, Conferences and CPD

NSEAD Courses, Conferences and CPD

Find out about NSEAD courses, conferences and training opportunities.

NSEAD Courses

The Mighty Creatives

Sir Ken Robinson TED Talk - Do Schools Kill Creativity

Cultural Learning Alliance

The Mighty Creative work with education providers and cultural organisations in the East Midlands to support and develop ways of tackling inequality of access to creative opportunities.

Visit TMC website

Cultural Learning Alliance

Sir Ken Robinson TED Talk - Do Schools Kill Creativity

Cultural Learning Alliance

The Cultural Learning Alliance champions a right to arts and culture for every child. They act as a backbone organisation for the arts and cultural education sector, and provide the analysis, evidence, and arguments that Alliance members and their wider sectors can use.

CLA Website

Sir Ken Robinson TED Talk - Do Schools Kill Creativity

Sir Ken Robinson TED Talk - Do Schools Kill Creativity

Sir Ken Robinson TED Talk - Do Schools Kill Creativity

Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity. 

Watch the TED TALK

ChalleNGe Downloadable Resources and Information

ChalleNGe Plan 2019-2022 (pdf)Download
Cultural Statement and Framework for Nottingham (pdf)Download
TMC Collective Outcomes Tool ChalleNGe - spreadsheet for arts orgs and schools to complete. (xlsx)Download
Creative Activities pack - print version, 2nd edition (pdf)Download
Creative Activities pack - pdf with links, 2nd edition (pdf)Download
Nottingham City Transport - Free Travel Form (doc)Download

Downloadable Resources and Information

Strategy 2020_2030 Arts Council England (pdf)Download
The RSA Cultural Learning Evidence Champions Handbook (pdf)Download
RSA Arts Rich Schools (pdf)Download
Durham Comission on Creativity and Education (pdf)Download
Cultural Learning Alliance Key Findings 2017 (pdf)Download
CLA Employability and Enterprise Briefing (pdf)Download
CLA Arts Health and Wellbeing Briefing (pdf)Download

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